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Mission

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Brady, Winston v Keene, Suewayne Lloyd and Insurance Company of the West Indies

Civil Procedure - CPR rule 11.16 - Considerations on application to extend time - Whether time should be extended to make application to set aside orders made without notice - Application to set aside order for substituted service on insurance company - Whether reasonable efforts made by insurer to contact insured to bring contents of claim form and particular of claim to his attention.

Administrator General for Jamaica (Administrator of Estate Kevin Andrew Robinson) v White Diamond Hotels & Resort Limited (trading as Royalton White Sands) No. 2

Civil Practice and Procedure - Establishment and effect of conditional order - Rule 26.1(7) - Rule 27.11 - Whether application to vary date for compliance in conditional order is to be made pursuant to rule 26.8 or rule 27.11 - Considerations on application to vary under rule 26.1(7) - Whether time for compliance with conditional order should be varied - Rules 26.3(1) (a) and (b) - Considerations for striking out - Whether statements of case should be struck out for noncompliance with court orders or as an abuse of process - Rule 9.6 - Whether procedure to dispute court’s jurisdiction to tr

Hardware & Lumber Ltd v Commissioner of Customs

Revenue Procedure - Revenue Court Rules 1972 - jurisdiction of the court - Rule 12 - amendment to statement of case - Considerations on applications to amend statements of case - Rule 32 - Considerations on applications to extend time - Application to extend time to file documents giving rise to appeal and submissions - Rule 40 - applicability of CPR 26.7(1) and CPR sanctioning regime

Christopher Stephenson v The Board of Management of Penwood High School & Anor

Judicial Review - Application for Leave - Composite decision making process - Whether there are reasonable grounds for judicial review with a realistic prospect of success - Failure to challenge decision making process of appellate tribunal which is capable of curing defects in earlier process - Late stage amendment of application for leave

Francis, Colbert v Transjamaica Highway Limited

Negligence - nature of common law duty in respect of highways - motor vehicle collision on toll road due to presence of smoke from fire on adjoining lands - whether concessionaire of toll road who had contracted out obligation for operation and maintenance to a third party had a duty of care to the user of the highway at common law
Breach of Contract - whether there is evidence of contract.

Spectrum Management Authority v Myers-Hamilton, Dr. Maria , Kevon Stephenson, The Integrity Commission

Application for injunction - evidentiary requirements on oral application for interim injunction - whether threshold test for interim injunctive relief met - 
Application to extend time to apply for judicial review - Whether time should be extended where execution of entry and production notice under the Integrity Commission Act were allowed by applicant

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